Blur identification and restoration of degraded images using generalized cross-validation criterion

Abstract

In this paper, we describe blur identification and restoration of noisy degraded images. The point-spread function (PSF) can be characterized by the quantity of blur. Thus the blur identification problem can be solved as a parameter estimation problem. The estimation method is a generalized cross-validation (GCV) criterion that is known as a powerful measure that can be used to choose the optimal regularization parameter without a priori knowledge about noise. We use the iterative damped-1east squares (DLS) algorithm which is based on the principle of damped least-squares for restoring noisy degraded images.